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From the other side of the desk

From the OTHER SIDE OF THE DESK

Good feedback is hard to find, says agent Piers Blofeld

Writing and insecurity do, unfortunately, all too often go hand in hand. Writing is too lonely and too self involved a business for it to be anything other than inevitable for writers to occasionally wonder if they have gone mad and are barking up completely the wrong tree.

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